Leonel Vivas
Venezuelan Ambassador to Australia
The following is excerpted from a August 2, 2003, speech at a conference in Sydney, Australia, organized by the Committees in Solidarity With Latin America and the Caribbean.On behalf of the people and the government of Venezuela, I would like to express my deepest recognition to the organizers of this conference. I appreciate very much the friendship and solidarity shown by all of you, in respect to the revolutionary process that my government and especially President Hugo Chávez, is today pushing ahead in Venezuela. Please accept my warmest greetings.From 1958 until 1998, Venezuela was ruled alternatively by two main traditional…
